Patients' Health Beliefs and Adaptation to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Based on Duration of Symptomatic Presentation

Journal of Hand Therapy

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-36

  Martin, Hope ^a  

^a University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; GROUNDED THEORY; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFE EVENT; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WORK;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; DENIAL (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33846330176     PISSN: 08941130     EISSN: 1545004X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.jht.2006.10.002     Document Type: Article

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